Your magical words and these serene pictures of your winter make your thoughts even more beautiful, dear Pam, thank you for this sneak peek in your Scandinavian life :)!Here, in The Netherlands, we have serious frost now -10oC. That's not as much compared to your temperatures, but for here one can say: it is winter now :D! Yesterday we had a little snowfall, about 3 cm, not much, but it gave me personally that lovely special winter feeling, a bit the same of what you described here above on your blog...so thank you for your blog post :D!Warm hugs, Ilona